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[Duke 2.0]

 Huh. Note to self: Don't lend that giant Van De Graaff generator mounted on an airplane to those extremist Atheists.

 But yes, at least it's nice to know there wasn't a typical panic when a billion lightning strikes come out of nowhere.

[Leafsnail]

I did read a story about a man who was hit by lightening out of a completely blue sky.  Now that is really unlucky.

Someone was killed outside Westminster recently too.  No, it wasn't a politician.

[Yanlin]

Contrary to popular belief, you don't need massive clouds for lightning.

In fact, a cloud only needs a few particles to it. As in, you can't even see it!

Thus, clear sky lightning. The lightning accumulates enough volts to bridge the gap between the sky and the ground. Since EVERYTHING is somewhat conductive, including air, it flows downward to the ground.

The ground is negatively charged and the clouds are positively charged. Or was it the other way around?

Also, scientists observed lightning form from the ground upwards.

[citation needed] because I'm talking from memory right now.

[Duke 2.0]

 Perhaps if there is a lot of dust in the upper-atmosphere(If a nearby state is very dusty recently) such lightning could happen. Indeed, thunderstorms only produce such lightning because of the massive numbers of water and dust particles that are rubbing together thanks to clashing air fronts.

[Enzo]

I guess he was the wrong denomination. SMOTE.

All disrespectful comments aside, that's a pretty crazy story.

[Rysith]

What are the chances of lightling striking twice in the same place? From reading this article it sounds like a decent chance, not that anyone in that event really sounded like they even deserved it. Oh well, that's life the ultimate Rouge Like.

Once a bolt comes down, it leaves a path of ionized air with much lower resistance. That means that it's fairly common to get several repeated strikes to the same (or nearby) points on the ground from different cloud regions, since the ionized path is an "easy" path for the voltage difference to flow along. You'll normally get a bolt from a different area onto the same path, with the possibility of deflection at the very bottom if the air near the strike point is significantly disturbed.

[JoshuaFH]

My grandma had a tree that was struck with lightning about 20 times...

[deadlycairn]

Apparently once you've been struck by lightning once and survived, you're more likely to be struck by subsequent lightning strikes!
[citation needed] Cause my memory's rubbish

[cowofdoom78963]

Usualy when you get hit by lightning theres a small chance you gain some superhuman power, but theres also a chance you might die.

[Enzo]

Usualy when you get hit by lightning theres a small chance you gain some superhuman power, but theres also a chance you might die.

Just like The Flash! I mean uh...I don't have an encyclopedic knowledge of comics...That would silly...

[Mr Tk]

There was a ranger at Jellystone who over the course of his carrier got struck seven times by lightening.

He retired in the end if I remember.

[Enzo]

Wait.

Jellystone is real?

[Agdune]

Puck: if it's true, it hasn't got anything to do with god. A guy fires a firearm in an unsafe direction (at a bell tower?!) on a regular basis and someone's going to be killed eventually.

[Leafsnail]

I think the "Lightning never strikes twice" thing just says that a rare event (lightning striking somewhere) is unlikely to happen more than once.  Bit wrong though, since a) it doesn't lower the chances of it happening again and b) if somewhere has a feature that attracts lightning (tall and isolated, made of metal) it may happen a few times.

In irrelevant news, the apple tree in my garden was struck a while back.

[Psyco Jelly]

Was Zeus playing blindfold darts again?